Willie63

Unfortunitely, Papa John will probably lose customers because of this statement. If we had a national health care system employers would not get involved in health care and the worker would have this taken out of their salary. Hopefully our beloved small businessmen would then give their workers a living wage with his savings, but I doubt it.

My family knows dozens of neighbors and friends who are die-hard GOP supporters who really shouldn't be. Basically their wages are stagnant, they are in debt up to their eyeballs, and their health care plan is basically don't get sick. But no, they are concerned with immigrants, religion and the communists trying to take over their country.

A good example, 22 year old works at a small business that actually provides health care but at a pretty high level for the employees, like $200 a month, which is probably about 15-20% of take home pay. What does this conservative supporter do? Well she is still on her dad's family policy thanks to his working at wonderful company that happens to be German and I guess believe that their employees wouldn't do something like this. She has the best of both worlds, excellent insurance thanks to foreigners, and she is a happy voter.

Back in the 80's I lived in the District of Columbia and they would pull your tags off your car in the middle of the night if your insurance lapsed. And this was probably a paper system. They also had a yearly free car inspection system that was funded by part of your tag fees. If a proper sticker was not on your car, off came your tags.

This what you get when you deal with people who can't back down, make deals or compromise. This is destroying our system of governance. When the lawsuit is filed the judge should make them go into mediation and hash out a deal.

This what you get when you deal with people who can't back down, make deals or compromise. This is destroying our system of governance. When the lawsuit is filed the judge should make them go into mediation and hash out a deal.

You have just described how small business operates nowadays. They are not the real job creators that everyone talks about. Gone are the days that a small businessman, under 500 employee, thinks of his workers as part of a greater family with a living wage and adequate benefits.

I always wondered how a company that sells tractors and heavy equipment actually qualifies to bid on a clean up project. You would think that a company that cuts down trees, or maybe a landscaping company would be a more of a fit for clean-up after a hurricane. If I owned a chicken restaurant in Fairhope could I bid a hurricane clean-up RFP!

While not a big admirer of Dorsey he probably is the best commissioner to send overseas, not so parochial, and yes if you want to tout a specific location it is nice to have someone very familiar with it.

Gulf Shores visitors have been paying parking, entrance and pier fees for years at the main beach at the end of Highway 59 and at the State Park facilities, but I am guessing that the beach goers from Lower Mobile County and Jackson County, MS that frequent Dauphin Island will not like this.

Dunlap, you don't know what you are talking about because you get your world view watching Fox's around the world in 80 seconds each day. How do think all the Central Americans get to the US, on Delta? No, they travel through Mexico paying gangsters and corrupt police dearly.

The evidence suggests that the overall costs imposed on the US economy by undocumented immigrants are eguivalent to or outweighed by the benefit. Undocumented immigrants create consumer demand, they buy things. They are undocumented taxpayers, they pay sales taxes, federal and state income taxes and ask for no refunds. They subsidize Social Security each year to the tune of $6-7 billion a year.

Thanks Mr Ratliff, I am sure pretty sure some of our legislators that passed our odorous immigration law
have ancestors that arrived as short term workers and stayed. In the 1840's 70% of Irish immigrants arrived as workers in servitude, then the term used for temporary non citizen workers.